Wednesday, November 26, 2008

FOODLORE

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Enjoy these food stories from the Library of Congress audio collection of folklore.

Berry pickin and making pies


Tom Turkey


wild turkey gobbling


Shawnie Lettuce


Cushaw pumpkins

SOURCE:
Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
incorporates 718 excerpts from original sound recordings, 1,256 photographs, and 10 manuscripts from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documenting traditional uses of the mountains in Southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley.

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